Increasingly on the Yahoo InfoSelect group the main topic of conversation is how to transfer IS notes to EverNote.

Also, Jim Lewis, the IS developer, has for the most part stopped posting. I gave him kudos earlier this year when he took a public presence on the group. Coming on to the group and disappearing again is perhaps worse than never having appeared.

The EverNote-related discussion and Jim's absence do not auger well for IS, which has been going through a beta development process prior to launching its next major upgrade, the first in a few years.

I wonder if there is any one piece of software which could be considered an IS successor.

EN does some, but not, all of what IS does. Perhaps programs such as UltraRecall and MyInfo come closer, more so UR because of it has better web clip and browser capability than MI, though in all fairness, IS' deployment of web capability was often problematic.

Daly

InfoSelect is the ultimate poster child for the mistake of trying to pack every feature and function under the sun into what was once a pretty usable application. At its core, IS was a nice freeform database with super fast search. If the developer had been satisfied with that, it would still be a great application. Unfortunately, they decided to make it a spreadsheet, database, e-mail client, calendar, etc... Because of that it is kind of hard to say what the right successor should be, because it depends on how one was using it. If someone just wants a nice note manager, Evernote fits the bill. But if someone wants something that combines some of those other features as well, then that complicates matters. I don't have a suggestion, but I would be interested in hearing some others' thoughts on the subject.

Steve

Just now there is a post by Mark Hodges to the IS group announcing start-up of a new Yahoo IS-EN group for people transitioning.

Mark explained it is a "place for those of us trying to do the migrate to Evernote thing."

http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/IS-EN/

Daly

What current databases out there have an instant search feature (like IS) built into the application? I'm discounting those that reply on an external indexing application.

Jack

UltraRecall (among many others I guess)

Jack Crawford wrote:

What current databases out there have an instant search feature (like IS) built into
the application? I'm discounting those that reply on an external indexing
application.

Jack